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Weekly Pattern Wednesday

7/29/2015

Hello everyone,
I'm back with a new pattern. If you would like to see what everyone else created this week go here.

I intended to add more to this pattern, but I got pretty busy today. My family and I are taking the wallpaper out of one of our bedrooms. We have lived here too long with this ugly wallpaper., but it is a time consuming sticky job. Hopefully I'll have more time next week to play around with a pattern.

I'll see you back next week with a new pattern.
Janelle

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Vacation

7/27/2015

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I went on vacation last week to visit extended family on my husband's side and on my side. My family and I visited 9 states in a week. We saw some great scenery on our long drives. We visited the Badlands in South Dakota, Devil's Tower in Wyoming, Fossil Butte in Wyoming, and Flaming Gorge in Wyoming and Utah. We also spent some time in Minnesota at my husband's family's lake cottage. We drove in these states on this vacation: Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, and Iowa.

Now we are home and I'm catching up on laundry and other household tasks. I thought that you would like to see some of the pictures from my vacation.

Sunrise at the lake in Minnesota.

Badlands National Park

Yellow Mounds Badlands National Park

Devil's Tower

A rock climber at Devil's Tower.

This little guy came right up to me at Devil's Tower.

Wyoming scenery

The mountains in Wyoming

More Wyoming scenery

Antelope in back of my parent's house.

The view in Fossil Butte National Monument.

Part of Flaming Gorge on a cloudy day.

I hope that you enjoyed this brief tour of my vacation. I'll be back to creating art soon.
Janelle

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Weekly Pattern Wednesday

7/22/2015

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This week I filled in another shape with a pattern. I divided this oval into sections and put a different pattern in each one. Sometime I would like to color this one in, especially the center motif.

If you want to see the patterns that the other artists created go here.

Have a great week and I'll see you here next week.
Janelle

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Summer of Color Orange, Orange, Blue

7/15/2015

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This is the last week for Summer of Color this year. If you want to see what everyone else has made this week go here.

It has been a lot of fun creating a small quilt for each of these challenges. I'll miss the activity and all the wonderful comments from so many of you. It has been a pretty busy summer for me so I haven't been able to comment on very many of the other artist's posts. Hopefully things will slow down a bit for me the rest of the summer and I can catch up with everyone. All the art posted has been very inspiring. I love seeing what everyone has done and all the other art forms being used.

Now onto my quilt for this week. I used fabric that I had already dyed for this one and used an improvisational piecing technique that involved sewing strips and then cutting them, and sewing them back together again. This time I sewed the top and free motion stitched words and loops for the quilting. It has been challenging to try and make abstract quilts using different techniques each week. Now I can go and use my favorite techniques in larger quilts.

It's not always easy to stitch words, but it is fun to do. I still need to get a matching marker and dot all the i's. The words need to be sewed continuously, so the dots get added later.

I hope that you enjoyed this quilt. I am still adding to my purple and yellow quilt, so I'll have to share that later when it is done.
Have a great summer.
Janelle

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Weekly Pattern Wednesday

7/15/2015

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I'm back with another pattern today. If you would like to see what pattern everyone else made go here.

I filled in another shape this week. I chose a fish, I really like how it turned out. I may just keep filling in different shapes for a while and see how they go.

I'll be back with another pattern and in the meantime have a great week.
Janelle

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Summer of Color Green Green Pink

7/11/2015

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This week the challenge colors are green, green, and pink. You can see all the details here, plus links to the other artists' pieces for the week.

I decided to make a confetti quilt this week. I started by taking three colors of my hand dyed fabric and cutting them into tiny pieces with my rotary cutter. I used a variety of scraps and some bigger pieces. Some to the fabric I used had fusible on it and some didn't.

I laid these fabrics out in a forest scene, put a layer of Misty Fuse over the top, and fused the pieces down to my base fabric. I had too much white space, so I painted over the Misty Fuse with more green. I used a green Meta Mica paint that works great on paper and fabric. After the paint was dry I put another layer of fusible down and fused the whole thing again.

I free motion stitched trees, foliage and pink flowers in the grass and I gave the trees pink flowers too. Everything blended together with all that green, so it was really hard to see what I was stitching, but it worked out okay anyway.

Next time I make a confetti quilt, I will use a broad color pallet and make a landscape.

I'll see you next week with another color challenge from Summer of Color.
Janelle

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Weekly Pattern Wednesday

7/8/2015

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I played around with filling in and around circles this week. It turned out a bit random, but I like it. Go here to see what other people created.

Have a great week and I'll see you back next week with another pattern.
Janelle

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Summer of Color Red Red Metallic

7/5/2015

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This week on summer of color we had to use red, red, plus a metallic. Go here to get a look at all the other amazing art. I didn't have any red fabric so I decided to dye some. I covered a piece of cotton with a lighter pink red. Then I added some fake writing over the top in both directions with a darker fire red. I use thickened dye that is the consistency of honey and a syringe with a thin needle point to do the writing. After that was cured and washed out I added a design in gold paint with a fine line bottle.

I quilted a pattern of rectangles and triangles and added some gold and red buttons for accents.

I love the fabric that I created and still have more of that. I will be using it again at some point. I like the tone on tone look and want to created more fabric like that again too.
Have a great week,
Janelle

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Weekly Pattern Wednesday

7/1/2015

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This week I created a simple flower pattern. I filled the petals with bubbles. I love stitching bubbles on my quilts and I would use this pattern to stitch on quilts. I would make the motif larger though, on fabric.

If you would like to see what all the other patterns go here. Lynn also has a free gift this week for everyone.

I'll see you next week with another pattern.
Janelle

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